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BowieBowie is the name of several places in the United States of America:This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. A dear little lad
For he turned out a horribly fast little cad.
For when he was born he astonished all by,
"Did ever you see?"
A hat all awry--
And a miniature--miniature glass in his eye.
He grumbled at wearing a frock and a cap,
And his "Hang it! 'oo know.html">know!"
"My friends, it's a tap
(Now this was remarkably excellent pap.)
He'd chuck his nurse.html">nurse under the chin, and he'd say,
"'Oo doosed fine gal!"
"A month from to-day
Then I'd wish, if you please, for to toddle away."
His father.html">father.html">father, a simple old gentleman, he
And "Once on a time,"
"So pretty was she,
As pretty, as pretty, as pretty could be."
But the babe, with a dig that would startle an ox,
Go along wiz 'oo, fie!"
Now a father it shocks,
When his little babe calls him a shocking old fox.
The name of his father he'd couple and pair
And insolent chaff)
Virginia the Fair,
Till the nuisance was more than a prophet could bear.
"There's Jill and White Cat" (said the bold little brat,
"'Oo sly ickle Pa!
I've noticed 'oo pat
I sink dear mamma ought to know about dat!"
He early determined to marry and wive,
With his elderly nurse--
His hearth didn't thrive--
He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!
MORAL.
Now, elderly men of the bachelor crew,
And spectacled nose,
If ever you do
For your babes will be elderly--elderly too.
To Phoebe
"Gentle, modest little flower,
Love me but for half an hour,
Sentences so fiercely flaming
I should always be exclaiming
Shed upon me while I sing!
Love me, oh, thou fairy thing!"
You'd perpetually hear,
But I do not, PHOEBE dear.
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